Wednesday, December 27, 2017

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Max Cooper:"I always thought this music created the feeling of an enveloping weight grounding the body, something relaxing but dense and inescapable.

I started work on it many years ago as a chord progression which I used for the intro of a live set. So when I started this EP around interpretations of time, I dug out the old chord sequence as a starting point for 'Veil of Time', where I wanted to try and convey this inescapable and consuming nature of time, as well as its role in facilitating beauty through a simple process of change.

It's a simple piece of music, just some chords augmented with field recordings from Turkey, and some hints of a synth melody. It's supposed to be something to bring you out of all the complexities of the information barrage and back down to a basic experience.

Kevin McGloughlin has made another of his masterpieces with this idea too, something of an abstract time-stretching love story, which I'll leave him to explain!"

Kevin McGloughlin:"The film for Max Coopers 'Veil of Time' is the story of two people travelling in time together.

I wanted to represent how limited our mortal timeline is, how precious and important the moments we share truly are, and convey an intertwined timespan relative to the world that surrounds us.

The 'love story' unveiled itself almost unknowingly while I aimed at these aspects of time. My initial endeavour for the film was to capture human movement and explore ways to interpret time by displacing the motion, however the 'narrative' became more substantial than the techniques and as a consequence, I focussed my efforts in that respect.

The film features performances from Eoin McGloughlin and Morgan Bonel and was shot in County Sligo, Ireland, using a Sony FS700.
As ever, I was totally honoured to work on this commission with Max and Co.

Standing as one of the most resounding electronic music labels in history, Ram Records has finally hit its 25-year milestone. Established by Andy C and Ant Miles in 1992, the label has boldly placed itself on the forefront since its inception, acting as a foundation for the drum & bass genre and seeing through its development from the very beginning.

Once heralded as a platform for Andy C’s own productions, the imprint expandedmassively, becoming a world-renowned hub for some of the biggest drum & bass artists to ever hit the scene. The label has gone from strength to strength, helping to pedestal house-hold names such as Chase & Status, Sub Focus and Wilkinson.From the charts to the radio airwaves, they’ve continued their crossover success.Receiving daytime airplay and top ten positions unceasingly over the last decade, the producers have enabled Ram’s influence to seep into every corner of dance music.

Alongside support from BMG and current label manager Jim Gash, 2017 has seen Ram Records ascend to new heights. And to celebrate their twenty fifth year, Ram will be rereleasing twenty five original remastered classics from their definitive back catalogue as well as seventeen remixes, including reworks from Chase & Status, Killbox, DC Breaks, Frankee, Total Science, Benny L, Kasra and Enei, Ant Miles and Shimon, Bladerunner, DJ Marky Calyx & Teebee, Sound in Noise and Metrik. All in, it’s Ram’s most ambitious project to date.

The 25th year of Ram’s history is looking to be its most memorable yet. Both musically and through their major city UK tour dates, Ram’s versatile roster is still being pushed to new borders. Quarter of a century on and the record label is as strong as ever.

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Join us for the massive 3 day & night celebration of the genre. Synonymous with drum & bass, and renowned for off-the-scale production, Let It Roll ticks over into another massive year.

See another side of Nina with this unconventional mix from our DJ of the year.
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“This is a mix for winter listening. It has a slightly melancholic feel, but it’s coming from a happy place and it has an optimistic ending. It’s about childhood: that clear, uninterrupted viewpoint that you have when you are a child. It’s about longing for something that you can’t even explain clearly, but feel deep in your heart.

This mix is about dreaming. It’s about love – in the wider, universal meaning of the word. I have included a few of my own previously unreleased songs. I might include them in my upcoming album; I haven’t quite decided yet.

They are all more like sketches than finished songs, but I wanted to keep them exactly this way to capture the atmosphere perfectly, and transmit what I was feeling in that moment, as if you were there with me. The rest is music from my labels трип and Galaxiid.”

Following on from his debut EP on Drumcode earlier this year, Ilario Alicante returns with a generous 6-tracker.

For the past few years Ilario Alicante has enjoyed something of an unintentional Ibiza kinship with Adam Beyer. When the Swede played his special annual sets on the Amnesia Terrace for Cocoon, for three years out of four, the Italian has been right there playing alongside him, ensuring his talents were on the radar of the Drumcode chief.

Ilario made his first appearance on the label in 2016 with the stirring ‘Temporary’ featuring on A-Sides Vol.4, before securing his first full-length release with the ‘Awakened’ EP that dropped earlier this year. ‘Figures & Echoes’ deepens his contribution to the label with half a dozen powerful cuts.

‘Figure of RA’ opens the EP, combining a rousing vocal loop, pulsating beats and effective melodic interlude to fantastic effect. ‘The Acid Runner’ follows and is true to its name, characterised by echoing vocal effects that lead to a piercing 303-line that hits with peak-time power. ‘Virgo’s Echoes’ features a persistent synth line that combining effectively with lush layers of melody to create an atmospheric impact. ‘Third Eye’ delivers an exhilarating dose of rave thanks to the hypnotizing riff that runs throughout. ‘Atonal’ is a late-night burner, as mesmerizing pads rub shoulders with sparse percussion to create a beautiful seven-minute piece, before the EP concludes with the funky deep bass of ‘Leave Me’.

The World’s Leading Dance Event is coming to Korea in 2018! Get ready for a spectacular show. Be amongst the first to secure your tickets and pre-register for Sensation Korea now via www.sensationkorea.com

Shapeshifter NZ solidify their out-of-this-world status with their sixth studio album Stars, out now!

Melding a progressive bass music approach with their definitive core elements - hypnotic electronic textures, barreling backbeats and the driving vocals of P Digsss - Stars pushes their stadium-sized sound to new heights.

Recorded between their New Brighton and Auckland studios, Shapeshifter NZ spent six months writing tunes and ideas before setting down the album at Auckland’s Roundhead Studios with The Upbeats’ Dylan Jones and Jeremy Glenn.

“We ended up with around 100 songs – a mountain of music. Working through them, there were the standouts, songs we all felt really strongly about. We’re ecstatic with the final result and how it’s all come together,” said Nick Robinson (bass/synths/MPC).

That interstellar result includes a tracklisting of 11 expertly crafted tunes - tracks which travel between the summer-time anthem of lead single ‘Stars’ and the cosmic craftings of ‘Her’, to the driving dance anthem ‘Eternal’ and darker corners of ‘Ex Machina’.

Toronto’s premiere live electronic act Keys N Krates dazzles on the enchanting production “Flute Loop,” featuring Ouici. A doorway to the ethereal, the record hypnotizes with shimmering music box chimes and mystical flutes before diving into the shadows of a brooding bassline and crisp trap snares..

In 1996, Steve Aoki founded DIM MAK and developed it into an influential independent record label and music lifestyle brand. Responsible for launching the careers of seminal acts such as Bloc Party, The Bloody Beetroots, The Chainsmokers, Deorro, Keys N Krates and countless others, the independently owned DIM MAK has consistently pushed new musical movements via its staunch DIY ethos. With a back catalog hundreds of records deep, a history of legendary live events, and a fully formed clothing line, Dim Mak continues its global mission of promoting boundary-pushing music and culture ‘by any means necessary.’